Ambrosia

Accepted species 53 Documented here 27 Family Asteraceae

Accepted species 53 in this genus

Every accepted species in the genus is listed. A name links to its page when we hold at least three commercially licensed photographs of it. Where we do not, the row shows how many we actually found, which is usually none.

SpeciesAuthority Usable photographsPage
Ambrosia artemisiifolia L. 3,294 documented
Ambrosia trifida L. 2,676 documented
Ambrosia dumosa (A.Gray) W.W.Payne 1,725 documented
Ambrosia psilostachya DC. 1,298 documented
Ambrosia salsola (Torr. & A.Gray) Strother & B.G.Baldwin 1,107 documented
Ambrosia chamissonis Greene 785 documented
Ambrosia deltoidea (Torr.) W.W.Payne 639 documented
Ambrosia ambrosioides (Delpino) W.W.Payne 473 documented
Ambrosia acanthicarpa Hook. 257 documented
Ambrosia monogyra (Torr. & A.Gray) Strother & B.G.Baldwin 157 documented
Ambrosia chenopodiifolia (Benth.) W.W.Payne 90 documented
Ambrosia confertiflora DC. 83 documented
Ambrosia hispida Pursh 83 documented
Ambrosia tenuifolia Spreng. 63 documented
Ambrosia ilicifolia (A.Gray) W.W.Payne 48 documented
Ambrosia cordifolia (A.Gray) W.W.Payne 34 documented
Ambrosia eriocentra (A.Gray) W.W.Payne 32 documented
Ambrosia pumila (Nutt.) A.Gray 32 documented
Ambrosia arborescens Mill. 20 documented
Ambrosia bryantii (Curran) W.W.Payne 20 documented
Ambrosia bidentata Michx. 19 documented
Ambrosia camphorata (Greene) W.W.Payne 15 documented
Ambrosia cheiranthifolia A.Gray 14 documented
Ambrosia magdalenae (Brandegee) W.W.Payne 10 documented
Ambrosia artemisioides Meyen & Walp. 9 documented
Ambrosia grayi (A.Nelson) Shinners 9 documented
Ambrosia peruviana Willd. 5 documented
Ambrosia porcheri P.D.McMillan & L.Prevost 2 below the evidence gate
Ambrosia canescens A.Gray 1 below the evidence gate
Ambrosia × helenae Rouleau 0 below the evidence gate
Ambrosia × intergradiens W.H.Wagner 0 below the evidence gate
Ambrosia × platyspina (Seaman) Strother & B.G.Baldwin 0 below the evidence gate
Ambrosia acuminata (Brandegee) W.W.Payne 0 below the evidence gate
Ambrosia carduacea (Greene) W.W.Payne 0 below the evidence gate
Ambrosia crithmifolia DC. 0 below the evidence gate
Ambrosia cumanensis Kunth 0 below the evidence gate
Ambrosia dentata (Cabrera) M.O.Dillon 0 below the evidence gate
Ambrosia divaricata (Brandegee) W.W.Payne 0 below the evidence gate
Ambrosia diversifolia Rydb. 0 below the evidence gate
Ambrosia flexuosa (A.Gray) W.W.Payne 0 below the evidence gate
Ambrosia johnstoniorum Henrickson 0 below the evidence gate
Ambrosia linearis (Rydb.) W.W.Payne 0 below the evidence gate
Ambrosia microcephala DC. 0 below the evidence gate
Ambrosia nivea (B.L.Rob. & Fernald) W.W.Payne 0 below the evidence gate
Ambrosia pannosa W.W.Payne 0 below the evidence gate
Ambrosia polystachya DC. 0 below the evidence gate
Ambrosia sandersonii S.L.Welsh 0 below the evidence gate
Ambrosia scabra Hook. & Arn. 0 below the evidence gate
Ambrosia tacorensis Meyen 0 below the evidence gate
Ambrosia tarapacana Phil. 0 below the evidence gate
Ambrosia tomentosa Nutt. 0 below the evidence gate
Ambrosia velutina O.E.Schulz 0 below the evidence gate
Ambrosia villosissima Forssk. 0 below the evidence gate

Why some species have no pagethe gate

This site is commercial, so it can only publish photographs licensed for commercial use. Roughly three quarters of the photographs on iNaturalist are CC BY-NC, which excludes them. A species needs at least three usable photographs before we will build it a page, because a page with one picture and no traits tells you nothing you could not get from a search result, and generating hundreds of thousands of those is precisely the practice that got the previous version of this site deleted.

So the species above without a link are not errors and they are not omissions. They are real, accepted plants that we cannot yet document to the standard we hold ourselves to, and the count in the photographs column is exactly how far short we fall.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. Accepted names, authorities, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. Photograph counts, restricted to CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA. Retrieved 2026-06-27.